From time to time the Parish Council receives information requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and/or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. The requests received and the Parish Council's responses are logged below, as they may be of wider public interest. All details disclosed here are anonymised in compliance with the Data Protection Act.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
FOI REQUESTS 2025
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Request title and date and response provided [link whole sentence to PDF document]
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In brief
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides public access to information held by public authorities.
It does this in two ways:
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public authorities are obliged to publish certain information about their activities; and
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members of the public are entitled to request information from public authorities.
The Act covers any recorded information that is held by a public authority in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and by UK-wide public authorities based in Scotland.
Public authorities include government departments, local authorities, the NHS, state schools and police forces. However, the Act does not necessarily cover every organisation that receives public money. For example, it does not cover some charities that receive grants and certain private sector organisations that perform public functions.
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Recorded information includes printed documents, computer files, letters, emails, photographs, and sound or video recordings.
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The Act does not give people access to their own personal data (information about themselves) such as their health records or credit reference file. If a member of the public wants to see information that a public authority holds about them, they should make a data protection subject access request.
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More details are available on the Information Commissioner's Office website.